This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
Genealogies, numbers, and roles.
Maybe it’s dumb of me to have only realized it this time reading through numbers, but I’ve just now realized that the book of numbers is called the book of numbers because it’s the book where there are…you guessed it…a bunch of numbers! Throughout it, it lists out numbers in each tribe, how many firstborns, etc. Pretty detailed counting. Within all this counting was strict counting around tribes and genealogies. How many people from this tribe, etc.
Also as it goes through, it makes distinctions. Giving the role of the Levites so that’s it different from all the rest.
I think this book is going to be at leats a bit more interesting than Leviticus, We shall see.